Sergeant Henry Rigg
781413 Royal Field Artillery 102 Bde
Killed in Action 5th August 1917
Lived on Glen View Road
Buried in Sanctuary Wood Cemetery, Belgium
Also commemorated on the Wilmslow War Memorial
Burnley Express 15th August 1917 - 15th August 1917

I am currently researching into Henry Rigg (who was known as Harry) as part of a group called Wilmslow Community Archaeology. The reason for this is that he is mentioned on the war memorial at Wilmslow and appears to have lived in Wilmslow, Cheshire for a while. The census return from 1911 shows his father as a gents outfitter, and his mother - who it also says was Rochdale born – is down as a ladies outfitter, whilst Harry is classed as “Commercial traveller”, with the additional citation of “clothing” added to the end of this. A newspaper cut out that I obtained from Ancestry, states that a gents outfitter was the business that he was assisting his father in when war broke out, and that this business was on a St James Street. This - I presume - is a Burnley paper, as no mention is made of him in the Wilmslow papers. The St James Street I presume, is also in Burnley; as I understand that, to this day, the street is still a major shopping place in Burnley.

Numerous photos and a letter are also on Ancestry, whilst a school report says that he went to Wilmslow Independent British School, but the newspaper article mentions Nantwich Grammar School.

(courtesy of Martin Burgess)